Mumbai or Bombay?
MUMBAI, India, July 12 — A bank worker did not ….
BOMBAY, India (AP) — Authorities named two suspects ….
Bombay officially became Mumbai in 1997. Bom baía originated with the Portuguese and means good bay. The British converted it to Bombay. Mumbai is the name the area long had in the indigenous languages and is thought to refer to the mother goddess, Mumbadevi.